Easy Soloing: Jazz Guitar

If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock jazz country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords -even when they're playing single-note solos. In this one and a half hour lesson Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. Covering several musical genres Fred teaches you to:Play arpeggios country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like Jambalaya and Wreck of the Old 97. Solo and backup R

Media Type : Book+CD+DVD Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Jazz Series : Complete Number of pages : 256 If you're getting into jazz or expanding your jazz chops, this comprehensive approach is for you. From comping and chord voicings to single-note soloing, you will learn, step by step, the tools necessary for playing jazz guitar. The book is easy to understand and contains hundreds of great-sounding playable examples to serve as springboards for applying the concepts to jazz standards or your own compositions. Whether you're into traditional jazz or fusion, this book has it all. In notation and tablature. CD and DVD included.

Learn an entirely new way to improvise over jazz changes!This hefty book and CD pack sheds new light on the old five-note scales that all guitarists know and love.The system is theoretically sound easy to implement and best of all it's designed specifically for Guitar.It will work with any chord progression - from simple to complex and unlike other systems there are no notes to avoid.

Diminished and Whole Tone Scales-In this book legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely guarded 'secret' soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple diminished and augmented patterns over dominant 7th chords.Containing over 70 music examples lines licks and patterns this book/CD package approaches the potentially complex topics of soloing and scale substitution from a player's perspective immediately presenting useful lines and patterns that you can now use. All music is written in standard notation and tablature and all music examples are contained on the included CD.

Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/CD packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature.

Effortless Guitar Series-This DVD will introduce you to the world of octave playing in the style of Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Pat Metheny. Learn how to dramatically musically and effortlessly expand your soloing using all of the touch taste tone time and above all tude as in ATTITUDE. Using octaves guitarists can kick-up the melodic possibilities of their soloing far beyond scales licks and chords – and give the player powerful new tools forimprovisation not just in jazz but blues pop and rock. Learn about octaves by learning easy to play contemporary jazz pieces in an effortless progression from the basics to some of the most advanced and expressive octave playingall in the course of one video! Sections include: Octave basics around the neck • using the thumb fingers and pick for maximum versatility • Chord solo concepts using octaves • blues licks scales and chromaticriffs in octaves • Play melodies expressively with octaves developing an awesome touch using right hand tonal techniques • developing a naturally expressive style using techniques such as expressive dynamic contouring• expressive devices such as slurs tremolo slides • additional harmony behond octaves • lots of solo ideas to develop and adapt into your own style.

This DVD will introduce you to the world of octave playing in the style of Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Pat Metheny. Learn how to dramatically musically and effortlessly expand your soloing with tips on touch tone time and style. Using octaves will enable you to expand the melodic possibilities of soloing far beyond scales licks and chords giving you powerful new tools for improvisation across all styles. This DVD will guide you through playing octaves from easy-to-play contemporary jazz pieces right through some of the most advanced and expressive jazz playing! Sections include:Octave basics around theneck Using the thumb fingers and pick for maximum versatility Chord solo concepts using octaves Blues licks scales and chromatic riffs in octaves Play melodies expressively with octaves Developing an awesome touch using right hand tonal techniques Creating a naturally expressive style using techniques such as ‘dynamic contouring’ Expressive devices such as slurs tremolo slides and additional harmony beyond octaves Lots of solo ideas to develop and adapt into your own style

Ten Lead Guitar Lessons from The Registry Of Guitar Tutors the world’s leading authority on Guitar education. Lesson subjects include: choosing a scale major scales pentatonic scales slurring vibrato jazz soloing and much more. Each lesson is shown in both standard notation and easy-to-read tablature. This book includes a free accompanying CD making Guitar easier to learn than ever before. Every example is demonstrated on CD. Many lessons also include backing tracks to play along to. This volume of Guitar Lessons is suitable for early stage and intermediate level players.

Real Easy Book 2 - Bb Version. Following on from the great success of The Real Easy Book Volume 1, The Real Easy Book Volume 2 is perfect for students with a few years of playing experience, right up to working professionals. From jazz classics like Four, Scrapple From The Apple, and Dear Old Stockholm to contemporary tunes like George Benson's Mimosa and Donald Fagen's Walk Between Raindrops this selection of songs will keep you and your audience smiling. The Real Easy Book Volume 2 will save band directors countless hours of writing out scales for soloing, chord voicings, Guitar diagrams and Bass lines - they are all included with each tune. The educational material in this book has been developed in conjunction with Stanford Jazz Workshop. It works.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing.Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending hammer on and pull off sliding and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal.This DVD includes: Essential blues techniques including; 12 bar blues in E (dominant 7th chords) Finger style blues Chord embellishments 8 bar blues Quick change blues and shuffle rhythms 12 bar blues in A (6th and 9th chords) Blues bends Soloing over a blues progression;licks double stops turnaround licks Scales arpeggios and much more!

275 pages of Afro-Cuban classics, Brazilian music and Latin jazz tunes, designed for classroom or professional use. Available in C, Bb, Eb and bass clef versions. Most tunes never seen in print before. Presented in 'Real Easy' format with the tune on one page and educational material on each facing page. Part I is suitable for high school ensembleswhile Part II contains more challenging tunes for college or professional use. The educational materials include scales for soloing, piano voicings, guitar voicings, sample bass parts, etc. When needed, there are separate rhythm section charts &/or horn harmony charts to help your band play authentic-sounding versions of the tunes. The Rhythm Section Appendix gives the student a complete overview of all the major Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythmic styles, with sample parts for each player. So, no prior experience with Latin music is necessary to start having fun! / Ensemble Music, Instrumental Music, Methods & Tuto / Recueil / Instruments en Do